Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Which Breast Is Bigger of Them All

SUMMARY: Symmetry is a topic of utmost importance when interviewing a patient who comes asking for cosmetic surgery. We must warn that asymmetry is “the normal.” There is no perfect symmetry in the human body, and this overstated search can be sign of psychological and psychiatric disorders. Sometim...

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Autores principales: Dini, Gal Moreira, Gozzano, Ricardo, Ferreira, Roberta Barros, Faria, Matthaeus, Farinazzo, Mario, Ferreira, Lydia Masako
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer Health 2014
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Ideas and Innovations
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4173825/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25289299
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000000037
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author Dini, Gal Moreira
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Ferreira, Roberta Barros
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Farinazzo, Mario
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description SUMMARY: Symmetry is a topic of utmost importance when interviewing a patient who comes asking for cosmetic surgery. We must warn that asymmetry is “the normal.” There is no perfect symmetry in the human body, and this overstated search can be sign of psychological and psychiatric disorders. Sometimes multiple procedures are needed to improve a breast’s symmetry and appearance. To give an extra intraoperative view, the authors have developed a new instrument to be used during the mammoplasty (reduction or augmentation) surgery.
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spelling pubmed-41738252014-10-06 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Which Breast Is Bigger of Them All Dini, Gal Moreira Gozzano, Ricardo Ferreira, Roberta Barros Faria, Matthaeus Farinazzo, Mario Ferreira, Lydia Masako Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open Ideas and Innovations SUMMARY: Symmetry is a topic of utmost importance when interviewing a patient who comes asking for cosmetic surgery. We must warn that asymmetry is “the normal.” There is no perfect symmetry in the human body, and this overstated search can be sign of psychological and psychiatric disorders. Sometimes multiple procedures are needed to improve a breast’s symmetry and appearance. To give an extra intraoperative view, the authors have developed a new instrument to be used during the mammoplasty (reduction or augmentation) surgery. Wolters Kluwer Health 2014-03-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4173825/ /pubmed/25289299 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000000037 Text en Copyright © 2013 The Authors. Published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins on behalf of The American Society of Plastic Surgeons. PRS Global Open is a publication of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivitives 3.0 License, where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25289299
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000000037
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